Poll: ACA approval at 41 percent

Approval numbers for the Affordable Care Act have stabilized after a decrease following the botched rollout of HealthCare.gov in October, according to a new poll released Friday.

The Gallup survey has support for the ACA at 41 percent, virtually unchanged from 40 percent in November. Although a majority of Americans still disapprove of the health reform law, disapproval has dropped slightly from 55 percent in November to 51 percent in December.

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It does not appear, however, that the troubled launch of HealthCare.gov has permanently changed opinions of the law. For comparison, disapproval for the ACA was 52 percent in July, before the website’s launch.

Approval for the law is, unsurprisingly, split along party lines; 75 percent of Democrats approve of the law versus just 10 percent of Republicans. The ACA approval rating among independents is 31 percent.

The survey of 1,011 adults was conducted Dec. 11 to Dec. 12 and has a margin of error of plus-or-minus 4 percentage points.